Editing Smaug (section)

=== Video games ===
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In the [[The Hobbit (2003 video game)|2003 video game]] release, Smaug, voiced by [[James Horan (actor)|James Horan]], appears as a non-player character, based closely on the book.{{cn|date=October 2023}}--->

In the 2014 video game ''[[Lego The Hobbit (video game)|Lego The Hobbit]]'', the portrayal departs more from the book; rather than ever more closely simulating the book's characters, the scholar Carol L. Robinson notes, the technology has allowed new fiction to be created.<ref name="Ashton2017">{{cite book |last=Ashton |first=Gail |title=Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7J24BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 |year=2017 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |isbn=978-1-350-02161-7 |page=125}}</ref>